The Worst Episodes of Miss Marple

#1 Worst Episode
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7.5/10(241 votes)
#1 - The Moving Finger Part 2
S1:E52/22/1985
The truth about the murders - and the poison-pen letters - gradually emerges, although Miss Marple herself is menaced.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Julia Jones
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Writer:Julia Jones
7.6/10(249 votes)
#2 - The Moving Finger Part 1
S1:E42/21/1985
It's such a nice village - who would have thought it held so many dirty secrets?
Director:Roy Boulting
Writer:Julia Jones
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Director:Roy Boulting
Writer:Julia Jones
7.6/10(134 votes)
#3 - The Murder at the Vicarage
S1:E1112/25/1986
Death is only steps from Miss Marple when Colonel Lucius Protheroe is murdered in the idyllic village of St. Mary Mead—in the vicar's study, no less.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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7.6/10(118 votes)
#4 - They Do It with Mirrors
S2:E912/29/1991
When Miss Marple is invited to the manor house of an old friend, it is not long before a puzzling murder puts her mind to work.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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7.7/10(167 votes)
#5 - The Body in the Library Part 2
S1:E212/27/1984
Miss Marple and Dolly Bantry investigate the millionaire Conway Jefferson and his entourage at a seaside hotel.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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7.7/10(164 votes)
#6 - The Body in the Library Part 3
S1:E312/28/1984
The identity of the killer is revealed, as is the dubious motive for the crime.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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7.8/10(196 votes)
#7 - The Body in the Library Part 1
S1:E112/26/1984
When a young blonde is found strangled in the library of Gossington Hall, Dolly Bantry quickly calls in her old friend Miss Marple to help her with some sleuthing. They soon discover that the dead woman was a dancer from the glamorous Majestic Hotel, and decide to check themselves in there in order to observe the guests and solve the murder.
Director:Silvio Narizzano
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Silvio Narizzano
Writer:Unknown
7.8/10(178 votes)
#8 - A Pocketful of Rye Part 1
S1:E93/7/1985
When the poison which killed Rex is identified as deriving from yew, it is on the household and staff at Yew Tree Lodge that suspicion falls.
Director:Guy Slater
Writer:T.R. Bowen
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Director:Guy Slater
Writer:T.R. Bowen
7.8/10(132 votes)
#9 - Sleeping Murder Part 1
S2:E11/11/1987
With Miss Marple's help, she discovers that the murder she'd witnessed was that or her stepmother, Helen Kennedy. Despite Miss Marple's advice to leave Sleeping Murder be, she decides to keep digging and search for the truth.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Writer:Unknown
7.8/10(122 votes)
#10 - At Bertram's Hotel Part 2
S2:E41/25/1987
Canon Pennyfather returns to Bertram's, but struggles to explain his disappearance, could he have been on The Irish Mail Train, robbing it?
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Writer:Unknown
7.9/10(92 votes)
#11 - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
S2:E1012/27/1992
At a reception for a fading film star making a screen comeback, a gushing, pushy fan is poisoned by a drink apparently meant for the actress.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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7.9/10(128 votes)
#12 - Sleeping Murder Part 2
S2:E21/11/1987
When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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7.9/10(130 votes)
#13 - At Bertram's Hotel Part 1
S2:E31/25/1987
Miss Marple takes a well earned holiday at Bertram's, a Hotel she stayed in as a child. It seems familiar, but underneath the dainty teas and classy clientele, Bertram's hides a secret.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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7.9/10(159 votes)
#14 - A Pocketful of Rye Part 2
S1:E103/8/1985
To Miss Marple the connection with the nursery rhyme is all too clear, as is who the next victim will be. She sets off at once for Yew Tree Lodge.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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8.0/10(298 votes)
#15 - A Murder is Announced Part 1
S1:E62/28/1985
A third murder occurs, and Miss Marple is only just able to prevent a fourth.
Director:David Giles
Writer:Alan Plater
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Director:David Giles
Writer:Alan Plater
8.1/10(124 votes)
#16 - 4.50 from Paddington
S2:E712/25/1987
Miss Marple's friend witnesses a murder in a railway carriage running parallel to her own, so Miss Marple engages a resourceful young woman to investigate. The search leads to a decrepit estate, where they suspect the body was dumped. But the seemingly innocent family who live there have secrets of their own.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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8.1/10(265 votes)
#17 - A Murder is Announced Part 2
S1:E73/1/1985
The inspector visits a dying millionairess in Scotland, whilst another murder takes place in the village.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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8.2/10(110 votes)
#18 - A Caribbean Mystery
S2:E812/25/1989
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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8.2/10(138 votes)
#19 - Nemesis Part 1
S2:E52/8/1987
Miss Marple receives word that her friend Jason Rafiel has died. In his will, he asks that she attended a coach tour, her aim, to unearth a mystery.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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8.2/10(262 votes)
#20 - A Murder is Announced Part 3
S1:E83/2/1985
A third murder occurs, and Miss Marple is only just able to prevent a fourth.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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8.3/10(130 votes)
#21 - Nemesis Part 2
S2:E62/8/1987
Elizabeth Temple is badly injured, she sends for Jane Marple, and manages to relay one piece of information, 'ask them about Verity.'
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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